Department of Veterans Affairs in Nebraska

A high-count VA file on Nebraska

Department of Veterans Affairs as awarding agency, Nebraska as place-of-performance: 19,572 records summing to $4,029,272,781. A Department of Veterans Affairs award coded outside NE is out. An award in Nebraska from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Nebraska (NE) excludes Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and Missouri. A Council Bluffs-coded award is Iowa.

Nineteen thousand five hundred seventy-two awards is a thick VA action file. Volume can rise on recurring health and benefit rows without each row being a new veteran. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 19,572 as 19,572 unique veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Nebraska is the both-keys table. Nebraska federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Veterans Affairs is the agency book without an NE filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Omaha and Lincoln are unpublished metro shares of $4,029,272,781. The join stays statewide. Correlation is not causation: Nebraska did not “cause” $4,029,272,781 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 036 × NE only.

Award rows are not unique veterans

$4,029,272,781 does not measure veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 036 and an NE place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 19,572 awards as a census of veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Nebraska federal spending or Department of Veterans Affairs matched $4,029,272,781 and 19,572, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri VA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Veterans Affairs obligated in Nebraska?

USAspending.gov records $4,029,272,781 across 19,572 awards with awarding agency 036 and a Nebraska tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Department of Veterans Affairs in Nebraska is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,029,272,781.

Is $4,029,272,781 a measure of veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings?

No. The packet publishes $4,029,272,781 and 19,572 awards for agency 036 inside NE coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this VA file have 19,572 awards?

That is the award-record count for 036 × NE. Combined with $4,029,272,781, the average is about $205,869. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 19,572 is not unique veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Nebraska is the overlay. Nebraska federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $4,029,272,781. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.